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Post by thestranger on Apr 6, 2009 10:17:44 GMT -5
I will wholeheartedly agree that Bush took advantage of mass hysteria with the Patriot Act and Guantanamo Bay, but those exploitative policies have since been repealed. Our government is not quite as amoral as it once was. That's what you see on the surface. The economic crisis is currently being used to promote dangerous expansion of powers allowing the government to interfere in commercial trade, and the threat of terrorism is being used to promote new anti-privacy/freedom laws such as the "2009 Cybersecurity Act." I believe the government should be involved in commercial trade. Considering the top businesses wouldn't exist without the government's financial assistance, the government basically owns it. Which I believe is necessary because of how incompetent and corrupt these businesses are. Now, while the government controlling the economic sector sounds like something from the USSR, you have to realize that Obama is not Stalin. This sort of interference doesn't mean totalitarianism when it's in the hands of a government that isn't out to cut the throats of its citizens. And things similar to the Cyber Security Act have been passed around congress for years and have for the most part been chided and ridiculed.
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